Introducing Snowpark

Snowflake, founded in 2012, started its journey to the data cloud by completely re-engineering the world of data and rethinking how a reliable, secure, high-performance, and scalable data-processing system should be architected for the cloud. It started with offering cloud-based data warehousing through a managed Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to load, analyze, and process large volumes of data. The success of Snowflake lies in the fact that it is a cloud-native managed solution that is built on top of the major public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform by automatically providing a reliable, secure, high-performance, and scalable data processing system for organizations without the need to deploy hardware or install or configure any software.

As with any cloud data warehousing, Snowflake supports American National Standards Institute (ANSI) SQL as the language of choice. Although SQL is a powerful declarative...